Letters to the Editor for Sept. 30, 2011

By Baker City Herald Readers September 30, 2011 05:33 pm

Facts and guesses in climate science
To the editor:
The writer of a recent letter to the editor obviously missed the whole point of my letter on climate change.
Within written human history there have been times when the earth’s climate was significantly warmer than it is today. Those warmer climates were actually more beneficial to mankind that today’s climate is. The above two statements are factual; they have been established through meticulous research by respected historians and archaeologists.
On the other hand, predictions of future climate change and its
consequences are highly speculative. Climatologists use computer models
to make educated guesses about the future. Only time will tell if their
predictions are correct. They prove nothing now.
Some climatologists have not exactly covered themselves with glory.
Most of the non-scientific world came to depend upon information put
out by the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in
England. In November, 2009, a hacker broke into the university’s
computer system and stole thousands of e-mails and documents. These
stolen e-mails showed that researchers there had been indulging in some
very unscientific activities. They manipulated data so that it would
fit their ideas and destroyed contradictory data. They concocted
fictions and published them as factual. They also used the prestige of
their institution to stifle dissent and suppress critics. This is not
science; this is ideology masquerading as science.
Human-caused catastrophic climate change is not “settled science.”
There are thousands of scientists who disagree, but who have not been
allowed to be heard since they go against the politically correct line.
So who do we believe? Do we accept the work of respected historians and
archeologists who have studied what a warmer climate is actually like
and report that it was benign? Or do we accept the educated guesses of
climatologists, a few of whom are not above a little intellectual
cheating?
In my book, the Medieval Climactic Optimum, a time when the earth was
warmer, is “an inconvenient truth” which Al Gore and his fellow
doomsayers have totally ignored.
Everything said above is all a matter of public record. Look it up for yourself.Pete Sundin
Baker City